Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-09-15
New Advertisements. .
Mr.. POwen'sopening speech,

1t was calm, dignifed, trenchant, aud
in perfect harmony with the Demo-
cratic platform, and with the best
Democratic policy. 1t was especially
strong in its genteel arraignment OF
Governor Foraker for the disgrace
which hehas brought upon Ohio and
upon lis Chief Magistracy by his in
diligence in public speeches in lang
uage too low to be mildly character
lied. His miserable abuse of the Presi-
dent of the United States, his likening
him to"a whipped spaniel" his ac-
cusation against him OF personal cow
ardice, his shamelessly indecent epi-
thets directed toward the Democrats of
Ohio, his miserable discourse upon
"the dirty Democratic tobacco spit in
the State Houseu-all are detailed and
treated with the quiet scorn of man
who respects himself, and regrets that
the Republican Governor Of Ohio can
mot preserve respect either for his own
character or for his high office.
Pertinently, also, he points out the
shame which fell upon Republicans be-
cause of Foraker's disgraeeful perform
ance-points out how they were forced
to revise his speeches before ,circula-
ton, and to strike out these utterances
of mind incapable of eonceiving the
grave obligations of his position and
the duties which he owed to the State
of Ohio. And then, after gently indi7
eating the low partisanship of hissoT
ponent's talk, he rose, himself, to the
position which Foraker should have
continued to occdpy, and discoursed
quietly and intelligently on questions
of public interest. Not being q Gov
ernor himself and having clear right
to speak as a partisan, lie yet kept
clear from the faintest approach to the
indecent offenses which he had brand
ed in the performance of the Governor
of thegreat State ofOhio.
He was most comnendable, too, in
his characterization of Foraker's cam
paign of hate. He called upon the
written testimony of the dead Garfield
and Grant to show the shame of his
effort to stir up sectional hatred as a
political issue, and demonstrated that
the living leaders of his party were
against him, as well as the dead. He
answered, happily, all the questions
which Foraker had asked of him in his
Toledo speech, and asked some, in turn,
which the great resurrector of the
bloody shirt will find it difficult to
meet. .r. ... ...
His arraignment of the financial
policy of the Eoraker administratio n
was searching and accurate. The gross
extravaganza, the gross defiance of par
liamentary law, the faithlessness to his
pledges for Civil Service reform, the
shameless use ofevery element of power
to perpetuate his hold upon that power
all were vigorously, yet reputably,
presented; and the crime which Gov.
Foraker had sought to commit against
the agricultural community was out.
lined in fashion that all who read
may understand. a Isl i-q3.a
Upon the complex question Of the
tariff he exhibited both knowledge and
tact. His quotation from Mr.. Blaine's
letter to Charles Emory Smith was most
happy in showing the iniquity of the
Ohio scheme to remove the tax from
whisky, and by citation he made mani
fest to all how, for the first time, the
Republicans have had the brazer
hardihood to abandon their oft-repeated
pledges of tariff reduction and reform
Enquirer. a.s.